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Money and Skill

Re ''A Moment for Reform'' (editorial, March 9): Somehow we feel it undemocratic when politicians and high rollers join hands and play ''funds for favors.'' But isn't this what made America great?

After all, it's a form of enterprise in which the top of the heap vie for access. Money leverages power and big money leverages power absolutely. That's just the way it works even if the American voter is left with a vague feeling that he's being had.

Where would we be without the big boys who keep it so very clean? Maybe we've just become too critical of those whose money and skill keep our great system operational. The only question that I have is whether we should go on teaching schoolchildren ''American history'' or whether we should start telling them the truth.